Jack McCarthy

Jack McCarthy

male, 70 years old
poet, stand-up poetry, Seattle Poetry Slam, performancepoetry, Boston Phoenix, Slam poet…Slam poetry
Jack McCarthy (born May 23, 1939 in Massachusetts) is an American writer and slam poet living in the state of Washington, who began writing in the...
Mighty Mike McGee

Mighty Mike McGee

male, 33 years old
San Jose, Fort Campbell, performancepoetry, From San Jose, California, Disabilities, Spoken word poet…Slam poetry, poetry slam
Michael Matthew McGee, more commonly known as Mighty Mike McGee, (born January 12, 1976) is an American slam poet. Born in Fort Campbell, Kentucky,...

John Giorno

male
poet, Columbia University alumni, American, sleep, AIDS, performancepoetry…Giorno Poetry Systems
John Giorno (born 1936) is an American poet and performance artist. He founded the artist collective Giorno Poetry Systems and coined its mass...
Hedwig Gorski

Hedwig Gorski

female, 60 years old
Polish-American, poet, austin chronicle, American, avant-garde, performancepoetry
Hedwig Gorski (born Trenton, New Jersey, July 18 1949) is an American performance poet and an avant-garde artist. She describes her ethnic...
Bob Cobbing

Bob Cobbing

male, deceased (2002)
From Enfield, PeRFoRMaNCe, British Poetry Revival, conscientious objector, sound poetry, concrete poetry…visual poetry, performancepoetry, Poetry Society
Bob Cobbing (July 30, 1920 - September 29, 2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete and performance poet who was a central figure in the British...
Joolz Denby

Joolz Denby

female, 54 years old
From Bradford, poet, performancepoetry, European Capital of Culture, audio books, New York Alcohol Anxiety Attack…performance poet
Joolz Denby (9th April 1955) (previously more widely known simply as Joolz) is a poet and novelist and artist based out of Bradford, UK. Initially,...
Gerard McKeown

Gerard McKeown

male, 29 years old
stand up comedy, belfast, bardic, cup, poet, from County Antrim…performancepoetry
Gerard McKeown (born 1980) is a writer from Ballymena, Northern Ireland. A graduate of Cumbria Institute of the Arts, he is best known for his...
Sandra Alland

Sandra Alland

female
poet, Proof of a Tongue, Some Poems By People I Like, This Ain't the Rosedale Library, The State of the Arts Culture in Toronto, Broken Telephone/teléfono roto/au téléphone…sound poetry, performancepoetry
Sandra Alland is an Edinburgh-based Canadian writer, multimedia artist, bookseller, micropress publisher and activist. She has published two...
Maggie O'Sullivan

Maggie O'Sullivan

female, 58 years old
British women writer, Women poet, Angel Exhaust, Palace of Reptiles, In the House of the Shaman, An Incomplete Natural History…performancepoetry, British Poetry Revival
Maggie O'Sullivan (born 1951) is a British poet, performer and visual artist associated with the British Poetry Revival. O'Sullivan was born in...
Bill Griffiths

Bill Griffiths

male, 61 years old
Hells Angel, Seaham, Tom Leonard, Durham and other sequences, Rousseau and the Wicked, poet…Poetry Review, performancepoetry, British Poetry Revival
Bill Griffiths (born 1948) is a poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar associated with the British Poetry Revival. Griffiths was born in Middlesex. As a...